Roger Russell is a senior editor at Accounting Today. He focuses on tax developments and compliance, and professional liability issues affecting CPAs. He is a tax attorney and has been a researcher and analyst at several major tax publishing companies.
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An inside look at the tax provisions of the Schumer-Manchin compromise.
August 2 -
Bloomberg Tax and Accounting’s annual state tax survey reveals nationwide trends in nexus policies and more.
July 28 -
The relief is only available for jointly filed income tax returns, according to the Tax Court.
July 27 -
A look at the biggest regulations, legislation and court cases in the field from the first half of the year.
July 21 -
2022 turned out smoother than many expected, says Jackson Hewitt’s Mark Steber, but next year’s may go differently.
July 20 -
NCCPAP’s June 2022 Tax Update reflects progress on a number of fronts at the Internal Revenue Service.
July 12 -
Investment properties are a very different class from stocks, bonds and the like, one that often isn't managed with the same discipline.
July 6 -
Lower courts have disagreed whether non-willful failure-to-disclose penalties are on per-account or a per-form basis.
June 28 -
The responsibility for collecting sales tax for businesses that sell remotely has become a ‘nightmare,’ according to a Finance Committee hearing.
June 27 -
The only clear theme from a recent Senate hearing was the lack of certainty around when a retailer should start collecting tax.
June 22 -
The pandemic and new IRS priorities are creating new opportunities for practitioners.
June 20 -
IRS statistics paint a picture of how small businesses were impacted by COVID-19 in 2020, and more.
June 14 -
With deadlines approaching for progress on an international agreement, different tax jurisdictions are chipping away at various obstacles to their adoption.
June 9 -
With social media and the internet multiplying the ways people can give, the rules are more important than ever.
June 2 -
A federal appeals court has affirmed a district court’s decision that gave priority to an Internal Revenue Service levy on a decedent’s estate over the decedent’s children’s rights under Louisiana law.
May 31 -
'There have been some tax seasons when I questioned my intelligence for choosing this profession, but this one didn’t give me that feeling,' said one preparer.
April 28 -
March saw the release of an OECD framework and a Biden executive order that set the tone for digital assets.
April 26 -
The unanimous decision overturned a Tax Court refusal to hear a taxpayer’s challenge to an IRS assessment that came one day late.
April 26 -
Yet another district court has ruled against a federal ban on states’ lowering taxes with pandemic relief money.
April 19 -
Clients who moved their work between states due to the pandemic may find taxing authorities eyeing them more closely.
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